CVE-2026-23090: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: slimbus: core: fix device reference leak on report present Slimbus devices can be allocated dynamically upon reception of report-present messages. Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up already registered devices. Note that this requires taking an extra reference in case the device has not yet been registered and has to be allocated.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.16, before 5.10.249 (fixed in 5.10.249); from 5.11, before 5.15.199 (fixed in 5.15.199); from 5.16, before 6.1.162 (fixed in 6.1.162); from 6.2, before 6.6.122 (fixed in 6.6.122); from 6.7, before 6.12.68 (fixed in 6.12.68); from 6.13, before 6.18.8 (fixed in 6.18.8); …

Published 2026-02-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.